Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1887-02-15
NEW SERIES, VOL: xxi, NO. q
For the Spirit of teifefsSR.i
a City Man in Jefferson.

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surroundings and take glimpse OF
how fellow human beings strive and
thrive,
1t is said that Zone half of tie
world does not know how the other
half live" We would assert that one
tenth of one per cent know nothing OF
the other ninety-nine and tiine-tenths
of God $ people.
We will copy from his own pen how
young Washingtonian viewed. lis
tened to and digested The erand seem
cry roaf11g aud tnnsical notes and
wholesome fS6d near the Shenanloai
Leaving the bustle and cares of an
active store and boarding B. & o.
train. chandeliers, brass goods and
ledgers were quickly exchanged for
high peaks and swift streams.
Stopping first at Harper's Ferry
and boarding at 1.-The Lockwood
considerable recuperation was had
among the antique buildings, the old
cave, Jefferson's Rock and Rattling
Spring. The crowning point being a
climb and visit to the "old stone fort"
on the top of Maryland Heights
Grand was the view of natures own !;
improved by mans hand.
Perhaps it should not be mentioned
but one day he went fishing and we
must say, it was no fault of the aqua
tics that the city clerk could not have
any muscular exercise in drawing
bait only.
Leaving the "Y" formed by the
river and copied by the B. & O., the
pleasure seeker soon found himself
entertained by Mr.. and Mrs. Draw
baugh at Shenandoah Junction.
That was rot his destination, so after
an enjoyable carriage ride behind
double team, to the old town of
Unionville, the visitor took the eve
ming train for Charlestown. Here was
a dilemma. His friends did not know
he was coming, and he did not know
to which point of the compass or how
far he had to go.
He found Charlestown a much live
lier place than thought for, especially
in the way of drummers at the Val
ley Depot.
A gentleman connected with the
Gas Works is to be credited for
kindly taking the stranger to the
Berryville pike, down which he mist
go to reach the hospitalities of Oak
Iona.
He understood it was three and u
half miles, so off he started with
satchel swung over his shoulder.
The shades of night fell thick and
rssSt. ne .FiIHec wv UITISS ana " as
told it was four more. Then another
mile was gone over, and he was told
it was three-and-one-half miles far
ther. He did not know but that
Charlestown and vicinity possessed q
patent arithmetic, for it certainly was
dark and getting late. He chuckled
to himself but could not see how two
three from threc-and-a-half left three.
would end. But as a pea out of its
pod is well cared for by mother earth,
so was tile strange city man kindly
taken in and we'll cared for by Mr..
Joseph Trussell. A nights lodging
only was asked for, but 10! the next
morning (Sunday) there was an car
nest invitation to ride to church, so
seated with the good farmer and his
wife he rode behind pair of staunch
horses and visited the Baptist S. S.,
and Church. He was n stranger at
home, for it was his own denomination.
Contrary to Mr.. Trussell's invita-
ton lie found his way to "Oaklona"
where Mr.. G. Mason Conklyn and his
mother fed him on good things and
made him spend a '' we'll to be remem-
bered' week.
Shaunondale Spring and farmer
Lcslie's were two of the good places
visited. A ride over the Kabletown
& BIoomery pike with a grand view
of the Blue Ridge, an interesting SER
mon from the Rev. DIR. Hopkins at
the Presbyterian Church; n ride
past handsome and we'll cared for
estate with long stone fences; d
visit TO the ruins of an old English
Episcopal Church. whose antiquity
dates back so far that even the grey
heads of jefferson cannot say when
its walls were intact; we're among the
things highly appreciated.
In the afternoon n good gospel
sermon was heard in the Oakland n.
E. Church South.
An excellent view of forty miles OF
the Blue Ridge can he had from the
porch of a convenient Post Office To-
lated in a neat village named after the
Kable family, Kabletown.
1t was amusing to see the rabbits
caper about among the dahIias and
other flowers in Mrs. ConkIyn's nu-
merous gardens.
The curiosity in the form of sheer
with five legs which is on Mr.. Trus
sells farm is worth seeing.
At the end of weeks stay these
things were left behind and the city
tolls again in hand, but long will be
remembered the extensive wheat anC
corn fields and the many heads ot
sheep and scores of live stock belong
| ing to the JeHersonites.
To show how little we know of eact
other we will end by stating that the
visitor who now traverses the twenty
feet paved walks has learned that his
| previous high idea of a sixty or sew,
enty acre farm is blasted and that to
find five hundred acre cultivated
farm, one need not go West of the
Mississippi but simply over the Blue